ATV driver arrested after fleeing police RIDE program

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Wiikwemkoong, ON — December 10, 2025 —On December 9, 2025, at approximately 10:09 p.m., an ATV approached a Wikwemikong Tribal Police Service (WTPS) R.I.D.E....

Island Snowdusters snowmobile club gets reprieve from Ontario: all trails will be open thanks to extra funding

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MANITOULIN—Early last week members of the Manitoulin Snowdusters voiced their disappointment and concern that the Ontario Federation of Snowmobile Clubs (OFSC) were closing snowmobile...

Indigenous leaders question Parliament’s fairness in rushing citizenship legislation for some ‘second generation’ people while their similar claims delayed

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OTTAWA—Canada congratulated itself last month for what it called a “fair and important milestone” in citizenship law. Bill C-3—formerly C-71, the so-called Lost Canadians...

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SHEILA LETITIA JANE ROWLAND 

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SHEILA LETITIA JANE ROWLAND  (St. Jacques) June 17, 1945 - December...

BERT MCGIBBON

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BERT MCGIBBON June 5, 1940 - November 15, 2025 In loving...

JAMES ANDREW ROBINSON 

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CHARLES ROBERT BECKS 

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WILLIAM KEITH “BILL” HANER

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PATRICIA DUTTON

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ETHEL RAE KILGOUR 

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